Michele Kennerly
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Dr. Kennerly is a theorist and historian of rhetoric specializing in the texts, terms, and figures of the ancient Mediterranean and their reception, including their resistive reception. She is the author of one book and editor or co-editor of three. Her current project, tentatively titled Automatic Athens, considers invocations of ancient Athens in discourse about automation from the 1830s to now.
She has served and, in some cases, continues to serve in officer positions in national and international societies for the history of rhetoric. She directs the undergraduate program in CAS.
Dr. Kennerly teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on rhetorical theory and on the past, present, and future of the information concept. The CAS graduate students currently working with her are: Jen Buchan (PhD candidate), rhetorical theory, classical reception, gender, race, disability, artificial intelligence, speculative fiction; Michael Delayo (PhD candidate), sports rhetoric, popular culture, new media; Ruby Johnston (MA student), the rhetoric of science fiction, gender; Caroline Koons (ABD) music as public address, rhetorical theory; Aria Mia Loberti (PhD candidate), ancient Greek rhetoric and philosophy, the reception of ancient women's voices, the role of the supernatural; Kelly Williams Nagel (ABD), visual rhetoric, public culture, imagination, contestation.